• 小莱卡
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    181 year ago

    It do be as simple as that but the cognitive dissonance doesnt allow them to understand it.

    • Muad'DibberA
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      181 year ago

      That, and westerners are so deeply pessimistic about humanity and the future, that they think that because their governments are run by greedy assholes, that’s it’s a universal trait.

      IE the “it’s human nature to be evil” argument. No, it’s just your bourgeios / capitalist dictatorships only that incentivize and reward selfishness.

      • @lil_tank
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        111 year ago

        westerners are so deeply pessimistic about humanity

        True but I think that it is even more due to essentialist thinking, the colonial mindset and the capitalist realism, making them believe that any specific aspect of the western society is a pure consequence of human nature